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What are these paintings when placed in the Stein context and what is the Stein context...
Cocktail parties are all right if you find one person and talk to him. Cocktail parties are all right if you find one painting and look at it. But why bother bringing paintings or people together? Do we put the Stein collection together only to look individually at Picasso's Cubist landmarks: his famous 1906 portrait of Gertrude or his Student with a Pipe...
What are these paintings when placed in the Stein context...
...reading Ulysses? Is Fitzgerald the same after reading The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby? Today's conceptual artists specify context where previously most artists have not. Just putting works into an exhibit puts works in context: does a painting of an apple look the same when in Gertrude Stein's collection as when in the collection of the President of Del Monte canned foods? Yet how we arrange paintings within the exhibition creates smaller contextual elements clarifying and defining the larger whole; these smaller elements are the visual evidence imperative to any visual lesson. An exhibition becomes a work...
...director of the show, Margaret Potter, associate curator of Painting and Sculpture, has realized her contextual statement in the belief that the Stein context defines itself; she has not emphasized the intellectual milieu of the Steins by clarifying their ideas about these works, but instead has arranged the show primarily by chronology, evoking a historical document with an assumption of intellectual history in the visual and literary arts of the Stein era. The catalogue clarifies some of the literary trends and ideas, but the visual thinking is limited. Still, there are a few excellent examples of visual clarification...